Garment-pocket.



No.- sszsm. Patented sept. 4, |900.4v

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GARMENT PUCKET.

(Application led Jan. 13, 1900.)

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NITED STATES PATENT FFIC.

rJosEPH s. ooY-TE, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-POCKET.

ysini:ciFIcAlIN refining part of Letters Patent No. 657,310, dated september 4, 1900.

Application filed Januaryl, 1900. Serial No. 1,363. (No model.)

To all whom itmy concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. Cov'rn, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pockets, of which the following;V is a specication.

This invention relates to pockets for watches and other Valuable articles; and the chief object is to provide a novel, simple, ecient,and economical pocket for safely protecting the articles and wherein the mouth of the pocket can be conveniently contracted or narrowedg by a folding tongue to retain and secure the!"r article therein. This object is accomplished in the manner and by the means hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which" Figure 1 is a side elevation of the pocket. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of Fig: 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of Fig. l, the pocket being closed or narrowed. Fig. 4 is a view like Fig. 3, the pocket being widened or opened. A

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now describe the same in detail, referring to the ac-r companying drawings, wherein the letters a h indicate, respectively, the outer and inner sides of the pocket proper, which are united by sewing or otherwise at the bottom, as at c, and left open or unattached at the top, as at d, to provide the mouth through whichthe watch or other article is introduced and removed. This pocket is placed within thei usual pocket of a vest or garment, as best seen in Figs. l and 4, and may be secured therein in any suitable manner. The pocket has a mouth-narrowing lock, so that if, say, a watch has been inserted into the pocket and the lock closed the watch cannot be withdrawn, while the mouth may be left wide enough open for the chain to pass or hang out. A practical lock, it has been found, is formed by the knob-and-socket fastening e and ycommonly known as a glove-fastener. The pocket is shown with side a perforated at g and the lock part or socket f at the side b opposite the perfration. The lock part or ball e is shown carried by a flexible tongue h, formed of two superimposed flaps projecting and inner sides a h. These two flaps are united by the ball-lock e, which is a stud secured in place at one end, passed through the two naps, and provided; with a rounded or ball-shaped opposite end. By passing the ball through the perforation to engage look part f the mouth is narrowed to secure the contents of the pocket against withdrawal or accidentally falling out. The releasable lock e fis show-n at one endof the pocket-mouth. At the other end portion of' the mouth is shown a permanent lock or fastening which is readily formed by an eyelet la. A washer or spacer Z is shown at the fastening k, and as this washer is made thicker or thinner an adjustment is secured, whereby the pocketmouth when open can be made to allow passage of articles having greater or less bulk, diameter, or thickness.

The tongue h is shown as really comprising two tonguesor branches, one'of` which connects with cheek a, the other with cheek b.

` When the locke isV open, the loop-Shanks h,

while allowing the pocket-mouth to open for the entrance `or exit of an article, prevent excessive opening of said mouth. The lock part e, carried by the loop h, is secure against loss and is always accessible.

This safety-pocket can be readily inserted into the main or regular pocket of a vest or garment. Simply stitching the edges of the safety-pocket at mouth d to opposite sides, respectively, of the garment pocket will secure the safety-pocket in'place. A The s ide edges of the safety-pocket could be sewed together; but it has been found preferableto leave such side edges free or disconnected from one another except by the locks e and k, as this construction is simple and cheap and allows the edges or lips of mouth el to be easily secured or sewed to the garment.

The pocket a b can be made impervious or waterproof to protect an article, as a watch, against perspiration and the like. In waterproofing it is found advisable to avoid rubber and use such material as gutta-percha, since rubber is apt to contain or to have been treated with sulfur, which may blacken gold or jewelry The socket part fis shown provided with a from and integral, respectively,with the outer washer m, which can be readily sewed or setional cheeks formaninnermouthfnarrewing.

cured to the edge or to.aLl-einforcement about theedgeof the lsocket-seat or perforation "in face b. A viiapor protector p can cover the inner face of the socket or metal sleeve f to prevent the watch or article being scratched" or defaced when passing in and out `ofthe pocket. This -ap or `protecting fahricfplhas of course a perforation large enough for knob e to pass into socketf. i l The expression pocket 'or f safety-A pocket7 `01:' course includes modifications, since, ,for. exa n1ple, the .,partsct b, instead of, being full cheeks, couldbe sectional pieces or" strips wideenough for `the application lof a? narrowing-lock, as ef, and an article, suchasa Watch or watch-stem, extendingbetween l such strips and vthe latter being locked for'. narrowed the watch-or article is .likewise ,secured the same-as if the safety-pocket :had ,a bottom c. The sectional-cheeks orstrijps can be sewed tothe garment-.pocket thefsarne as; the cheeks a. b. I g In each case Lthe fullcheeksaborthersedevice for the regular vpocket of thegarmenti or vest. Y f

What I claim as new, anddesi-re Ito securef by Letters Patent, is L `l. A safetypocket having'portions :of :thib, edges of its mouth provided with a projecting tongue constructedandy arranged .toffoldover vand lie upon the `pocket-body to contract @thef mouth thereof, and ,a vlock :device 4for locking said tongue when foldedfover-uponfthepockat 1 body, lsubstantially as described. 2. A safety-ipocket'having portions fof ithe; edges of its vmouth provided with Ysuperim-l 'posed-aps rf nI1l1iI1-,' a tongueiarranged treff-,old over upon the pocket-bodyga-nd contract the-` mouth thereof, and alocklde-vice ilorlockifngy Y the tongue when foldedlover uponthepocketbody, substantially gas described. f 3. A safetyfpockethavingzperforations and lPQItiODSY f theedgesof its mosthprovided with@ `pro'jectinbgtonguc :arrangedlto fold over upon the pocket-body and contract the mouth thereof, and a locking-stud attached'to said tongue and having a ball-head constructed to lengage said perforations and lock the tongue when fold'edroveupon l,the pocket-body, substantially as described.

- .4. A .pocket having a perforated side, a lock part Vat 'the side opposite the perforation, and a tongue provided with a second lock part .madecto :passthrough `the perforation to engage the first-named lock part substantially asfdescribed '5; A safety-pocketv having opposite perforations and portions of 'the edges ofits mouth provided with/.faifprojecting tongue to fold over ufpon the pocket-body, andfcontracttthe mouth :thereozandia lock-stud securedto said ltongueandhavnga balleshaped locking-head to .engage said zzperforations land Llock the ton gne in yits folded-over apositio'n, substanA tiall-y as described. j

.6. .A safety-pocket, .consi-sting ofwopposite sides .closed :at thebottom, Aopenfat ithe `top/to fonmafmouth and '.prouid'edfnearlthefedge :por- .tionsof Saidimgouth'withaaperforation, a :locki ing :part opposite ttheJatterand ,proj ecting, superimposed flaps constituting valong-.ue con structed to =f o1d `over aupon the pocket-body, andal'ockingstud securedtofsaidztongueiand having flocking-'head die vengagesaid perfo ration 'and flocking -partffwhen `,the ktongue :is folded upon `the 1pocket-body, Eto nontract the mouth, ksubstauti'ally :as described.

in atestimonywvhereof I lhave hereunto set my hand in .the presence of vtvvosubscribing witnesses. f

JOSEPH S. COYTE.

-Witnessesz I E. 5F. KASTENHUBER. 

